Augustus Caesar
Roundel
1521 (sculpted), 1905 (cast)
1521 (sculpted), 1905 (cast)
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This is a cast of one of a series of gilded and painted terracotta roundels with portraits of emperors made for Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530). The terracotta was produced the Florentine artist Giovanni da Maiano, who had come over to work in Britain in the 16th century. The plaster cast is one of several commissioned by the Museum relatively late in the formation of the cast collection, after it had been recommended at a Museum meeting in 1904. The cast cost £15, and in addition £4 10s. was paid for scaffolding to be erected at Hampton Court.
Object details
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| Title | Augustus Caesar (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Plaster cast |
| Brief description | Plaster cast after the terracotta original (Roundel with the head of Augustus Caesar within a border of Military Trophies), Florence, 1521, cast by Lorenzo Giuntini, ca. 1905 |
| Physical description | Plaster cast after the terracotta original (Roundel with the head of Augustus Caesar within a border of Military Trophies), formerly coloured and gilded by Giovanni Da Maiano, in the Clock Court, Hampton Court Palace. 44kg. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Lorenzo Giuntini in 1905 for £5 |
| Historical context | This is one of a series of roundels containing portraits of emperors made for Cardinal Wolsey (1470/1-1530) which have been connected with a demand for arrears of payment, dated 18 June, 1521, addressed by Giovanni da Maiano to the Cardinal for "octo rotundas imagines exterra depictas et deauratas pro pretio libarum duarum solidorum vj.et denarium octo quamlibet earum...." (for eight round images of terracotta painted and gilded at £2 6s 8d each) executed for "Anon Cort" (Hampton Court). |
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| Summary | This is a cast of one of a series of gilded and painted terracotta roundels with portraits of emperors made for Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530). The terracotta was produced the Florentine artist Giovanni da Maiano, who had come over to work in Britain in the 16th century. The plaster cast is one of several commissioned by the Museum relatively late in the formation of the cast collection, after it had been recommended at a Museum meeting in 1904. The cast cost £15, and in addition £4 10s. was paid for scaffolding to be erected at Hampton Court. |
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| Accession number | REPRO.1905-3 |
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| Record created | June 22, 2000 |
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